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The paper assesses the impact of the detection of a hard-core cartel in the Swiss market for road surfacing on post-cartel competition. In addition to an investigation of supply-side factors, demand-side factors, and market prices, the paper also derives estimates of the economic effects of the...
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Although the pricing dynamics of hardcore cartels have been studied intensively from a theoretical perspective … increase profits. Our results have important implications for both the design of screening tools to detect cartels as part of …
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with an elevated risk of cartelization. We argue that customers of hard core cartels can have both incentives and … endeavour to fight hard core cartels. …
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procedural efficiency of cartel enforcement in the European Union (EU). We use a data set consisting of 84 cartels decided by the …
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Due to being much better documented, legal cartels have recently attracted the interest of many researchers who aim to … understand the functioning of illegal cartels in detail. This paper contributes to the question of what we can learn from legal … cartels by taking a closer look at the cement industry which has a rich history of both legal and illegal cartels. We …
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Cartels were legal to a large extent in Austria until the country's EU Accession in 1995. We examine archival material … on registered horizontal cartels to learn about their inner working. Applying content analysis to legally binding cartel … contracts, we comprehensively document different collusion methods along the lines described by Stigler (1964). Quota cartels …
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The introduction of the European Union (EU) Settlement Procedure in 2008 aimed at promoting the procedural efficiency of cartel investigations by the European Commission (EC). We use a data set consisting of 579 firms groups convicted by the EC for cartelization from 2000 to 2015 to investigate...
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We use consumer panel data to calculate the damage suffered by German consumers due to a detergent cartel that was active between 2002 and 2005 in eight European countries. Applying before-and-after and difference-in-differences estimations we find average overcharges between 6.7 and 6.9 percent...
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While private actions for damages by customers against price-cartels receive much attention, the treatment of other …
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While private actions for damages by customers against price-cartels receive much attention, the treatment of other …
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